Door-securer.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification. of Letters Patent.

Patented April 17, 1906.

Application filed Jim 5, 1905. Serial No. 263,785.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST DENGLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Gibbon, in the county of Buffalo and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Door Securers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to door-securers, and

has for its object to provide a device of this character of convenient size, to be carried in the pocket, which cannot be shaken out of its operative position.

IVith these and other objects in view the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, as Will be hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and articularly pointed out in the appended c aims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a horizontal crosssection of part of the door and jamb with my device attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a side view of the device when in the position shown in Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, in which like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views, 1 is the body of my device, which is provided with pointed end 2 and grip 3. A projection 4 is formed on the body 1 at right angles thereto a short distance from the grip 3. Intermediate projection 4 and end 2 are two more projections 5 and 6 on opposite sides of body 1. These projections are provided with knifeedges and are in substantially the same plane as projection 5.

The operation of my device is as follows: The door being closed, the end 2 and projections 5 and 6 are inserted between the door and jamb 8 until projection 4 is even with the inside face'of door 7. As the distance from projection 41 to end 2 is greater than the thickness of the door, it will be necessary to force the end 2 into strip 9, which forms a rabbet with the j amb 8. When the securer is in this position, it is turned by grip 3 until projection 5 extends at right angles against the face of the door, and projections 5 and 6 are forced into the wood of the door and jamb, respectively, the engagement of the strip 9 by end 2 preventing the device from working loose or falling in an inoperative position.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as novel, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a door-securer, the combination of an elongated body or stem sharpened at one end and provided with a hand-grip at the other end and one or more spurs carried by the said elongated body or stem intermediate its ends.

2. In a door-securer, the combination of an elongated body or stem sharpened at one end, and provided with a hand-grip at the other end, oppositely-disposed spurs carried by the said elongated body or stem intermediate its ends and an outstanding projection or stop adapted to bear against the door to be secured.

In testimony whereof I afi ix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ERNEST DENGLER.

Witnesses:

C. O. HOLLOWAY, W. 0. SMITH. 

